... restore trade between the two countries and thus help Britain's economy. Influential figures such a John Maynard Keynes strongly supported this view, as increasingly did Austen Chamberlain. These two men can in a sense be seen as appeasers. It could be said that Britain's foreign policy of appeasement started when it was agreed to hold a plebiscite over Upper Silesia or when it was agreed to re-negotiate Germany's reparations in the form of the Dawes plan, confirmed at the London conference of 1924. The Locarno treaty, Germany's admission to the League of Nations and the Young Plan of 1929 can be viewed as part of the early appeasement of Germany, though clearly different in degree from the concessions made in the late 1930's. After the end of the First World War Britain had internal problems which diverted attention from foreign policy, especially widespread unemployment, and this became much ...

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